NACIS
Presenter: Erik Steiner, Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, Stanford University
Co-presenter: Nicholas Jenkins, Department of English, Stanford University
This talk focuses on a new map of London’s neighborhoods we have created for an exploratory website on historic London. Piccadilly, Charing Cross, The Temple… this effort breathes life into these universally-appreciated districts as cultural and lived geographies whose extents are often invisible on modern maps. Through various data sources, historic research, personal accounts, and imagination, we attempt to give form to these meaningful but mutable and subjective places of the city. The result is something that is part data, part tool and part artwork that marks another waypoint in the humble cartographic journey to discover and represent “place”.
Source
A New Biomorphic Map of London
